Andrea Bonime-Blanc

Dr. Andrea Bonime-Blanc is the chief executive officer and founder of GEC Risk Advisory, a global firm that provides strategic and tactical governance, risk, ethics, compliance, corporate responsibility, reputation and crisis advice to boards, executives, investors and advisors in a wide variety of sectors. She is author of The Reputation Risk Handbook: Surviving and Thriving in the Age of Hyper-Transparency and the 2015 Conference Board Research Report, Emerging Practices in Cyber-Risk Governance. She was twice named an Ethisphere “100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics” in the Thought Leadership category. She is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Director Member of the National Association for Corporate Directors and was named a 2014 100 Top Thought Leader in Trustworthy Business. She is chairman emeritus of the Ethics & Compliance Initiative and currently serves on several boards and advisory boards including the Madrid-based Corporate Excellence - Centre for Reputation Leadership and IE Business School’s Research Centre on Governance, Sustainability & Reputation and UK-based Ethical Corporation Magazine. Dr. Bonime-Blanc is an Adjunct Professor at New York University and a frequent global keynote speaker. She is an extensively published author of books and articles and has been interviewed by or written for the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, the BBC, The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, El Pais, El Cronista, and Jornal do Commercio.